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Mr. Jones

Dry Fly · Trout · Advanced · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook 2x-short curved hook (Tiemco 2487); extended body built on a needle, 12
  • Thread Tan (body); brick beige (hook) 8/0 (body); 18/0 nano silk (hook)

Materials

  • McFlylon (underbody) Brown permanent marker (half strand)
  • Thin fly foam, 2mm (body & back) Cinnamon (2mm strip)
  • Mono (body connection) Clear weed guard (01X)
  • Moose body hair (wing) Bleached elk hair (1 clump)
  • Barred Sexi Floss, small (legs) Amber barred sexi floss small (1-2 strands)
  • Superfine dubbing (thorax) Cinnamon caddis (small pinch)

How to tie it

  1. Mount a sewing needle in the vise, start the tan thread near the point, and wrap open spirals up the needle to the desired body length.
  2. Tie in a half-strand of brown McFlylon along the thread base (leaving a tag hanging at the rear), a strip of cinnamon thin foam about a third of the way up, and a couple inches of 01X mono folded and bound down in a loop for the tail connection.
  3. Coat the underbody with a thin layer of super glue.
  4. Wrap the foam forward under tension in overlapping turns, spreading the turns toward the front to shape a reverse-tapered body (fatter at the rear); tie off, trim, and hand whip finish over the glue.
  5. Twist the finished body off the needle, pull out the thread, and set the body aside.
  6. Mount a size 12 TMC 2487 hook, start the brick-beige nano silk, build a thread base from behind the eye to the point and back, and form a small bump behind the eye.
  7. Tie the extended foam body onto the hook shank.
  8. Clean and stack a clump of bleached moose body hair and tie it in as a forward-facing wing propped over the eye; trim the butts.
  9. Dub a cinnamon caddis thorax and tie in amber barred Sexi Floss legs, splayed to the sides.
  10. Whip finish behind the eye and add head cement.

Other versions

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